Just this once I am posting something wildly popular. How popular? About 27 million Youtube views worth of popular.
How did I miss this? I guess my self-protective bubble is far more effective than I was lead to believe.
Too bad the song kind of sucks.
YouTube - Lena - Satellite (Germany)
Thursday, December 30, 2010
On The Nature of Multiculturalism
As I am moist with creative thought like the wind-swept ridge of a sand dune in the Gobi Desert (see, even that sucked) I give you this comment on multiculturalism from the Reverend Paperboy. The kid can write.
Here's snippet in case you are lazy with the clicky.
"A strong secular society of laws and strong civil liberties are essential for an inclusive multi-cultural society. If the domininant culture is permitted to discriminate against cultural or racial minorities due to fear, those minorities often become radicalized. Multiculturalism doesn't mean replacing civil law with Sharia or the Talmud or any other religous law. Laws in most of Europe and North America while originally based on judeo-christian teachings, have become sufficiently secularized in most places so as to accomodate a broad spectrum of beliefs and practices while still ensuring a common set of rules of conduct.........
Multiculturalism, as I have always understood it, means that people are not forced to assimilate in terms of their ethnic and cultural heritage and you cannot discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion or ethnicity.
That means you can't refuse to hire someone or serve them in your restaurant or rent them an apartment just because they are X and not Y like "everyone else"
It means you can't force people to speak another language in the privacy of their home, or to dress a certain way or to not eat certain things simply because they clash with the practices of the dominant culture."
And Don Cherry is a war criminal. That is all.
Here's snippet in case you are lazy with the clicky.
"A strong secular society of laws and strong civil liberties are essential for an inclusive multi-cultural society. If the domininant culture is permitted to discriminate against cultural or racial minorities due to fear, those minorities often become radicalized. Multiculturalism doesn't mean replacing civil law with Sharia or the Talmud or any other religous law. Laws in most of Europe and North America while originally based on judeo-christian teachings, have become sufficiently secularized in most places so as to accomodate a broad spectrum of beliefs and practices while still ensuring a common set of rules of conduct.........
Multiculturalism, as I have always understood it, means that people are not forced to assimilate in terms of their ethnic and cultural heritage and you cannot discriminate against people on the basis of race, religion or ethnicity.
That means you can't refuse to hire someone or serve them in your restaurant or rent them an apartment just because they are X and not Y like "everyone else"
It means you can't force people to speak another language in the privacy of their home, or to dress a certain way or to not eat certain things simply because they clash with the practices of the dominant culture."
And Don Cherry is a war criminal. That is all.
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